I would like to thank those people who have contributed to GExperts during the time that I have been maintaining most of it. There have been various contributions ranging from feature suggestions with partial implementations, good bug reports, to bug fixes that worked out of the box. You might have had the impression that the … Continue reading Thank you, GExperts contributors
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Getting an old package wizard to work
I tried to compile the SarchWiz project by Corbin Dunn, which he describes in the corresponding article which in turn Ondrey Kelle mentioned in his blog post More Subversion. (The links to code central and edn above are the ones Embarcadero created from the original links to code central and bdn when they were still … Continue reading Getting an old package wizard to work
Delphi IDE Explorer Expert for Delphi 6 to 10.1 Berlin
I wrote this Delphi IDE Explorer Expert when I was trying find the button for showing and hiding the background for the Firemonkey mobile form designer and turn the bloody thing off for good. Later, I ported it back to Delphi 2007 to 2010 and also added support for Delphi 10 Seattle. Then I started … Continue reading Delphi IDE Explorer Expert for Delphi 6 to 10.1 Berlin
Delphi7Help4BDS updated for Delphi 10.1 Berlin
I have just updated my Delphi Help Expert to support Delphi 10.1 Berlin. It allows to reconfigure F1 + any of the modifier keys Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Alt+Ctrl to call either a help file (you will need the old winhelp viewer that Microsoft dropped with Vista(?)), chm file or internet url. It comes preconfigured … Continue reading Delphi7Help4BDS updated for Delphi 10.1 Berlin
Delphi Custom Container Pack updated for Delphi 10.1 Berlin
I just updated the Custom Container Pack sources to support Delphi 10.1 Berlin. It was mostly a matter of creating the packages for the "new" version. I also used the latest version of the Delphiversions.inc file. It now compiles and installs. I have not tested it extensively.
GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-05-07
This is a test release before Erik is going to do an official 1.39 release. Please report any bugs you may find (preferentially in the GExperts community on Google+ or the bug tracker on SourceForge) In contrast to my previous releases there are now installers for each Delphi version. These installers should install everything that … Continue reading GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-05-07
The ultimate bugfix for SelectDirectory
OK, here it comes, the ultimate bugfix for the FileCtrl.SelectDirectory function. 😉 I blogged about it before: The SelectDirectory function in Delphi's FileCtrl unit has several bugs. My first approach on fixing these, while working, was ugly because the user could see that the dialog position changed after it was shown initially at a different … Continue reading The ultimate bugfix for SelectDirectory
Fixing the SelectDirectory fix
In my last blog post I wrote My bugfix isn’t pretty, I must admit. It just defers these changes until the dialog is fully visible. This has the disadvantage the the user will see it popping up at the wrong place first before its position is corrected and the selected directory becomes visible. David Millington … Continue reading Fixing the SelectDirectory fix
Fixing the SelectDirectory function
The Delphi VCL comes with several overloaded SelectDirectory functions declared in FileCtrl, one of which uses the ShBrowseForFolder Windows API function. It passes a callback function which tries to do the following: Position the dialog on the monitor on which the application's main form is shown. Center the dialog on that monitor Select the given … Continue reading Fixing the SelectDirectory function